What is XEmacs?

XEmacs is a highly customizable open source text editor and
application development system. It is licensed under the GNU
Public License and related to other versions of Emacs, in
particular
GNU Emacs.
Its emphasis is on modern graphical user
interface support and an open software development model, similar
to Linux. XEmacs runs on Windows 95 and NT, Linux and nearly
every other version of Unix in existence. Support for XEmacs
was supplied by Sun Microsystems,
University of Illinois,
Lucid, ETL/Electrotechnical Laboratory,
Amdahl Corporation, BeOpen, and others, as well as the unpaid
time of a great number of individual developers.

XEmacs Community News

2017-03-11

Since the late 1990s, before spam became the problem it is at the
moment, we have offered @xemacs.org addresses to participants in the
project. Following the infrastructure problems of 2016, these
haven't in general been restored—most of them function more as
spam traps rather than legitimate email addresses.

Should you have had an @xemacs.org address and should you like to
have it restored, get in touch with by sending email to kehoea at
the domain parhasard.net.

2017-03-03

The XEmacs mailing lists are back up! Our subscriber list wasn't
available to restore, unfortunately, so please re-subscribe over
HTTP at https://lists.xemacs.org/. The
list archives are available at https://list-archive.xemacs.org;
a decent proportion of them have been restored, back to 1998 in many
cases, but I would be grateful for other archives, my own was
incomplete. Contact me by email
using kehoea at the domain parhasard.net.

2016-12-27

XEmacs had an unfortunate 2016, with our web, mail, and FTP provider
becoming unreachable and its maintainers unresponsive early in the
year. Happily, Bitbucket.org, our
Mercurial hosting provider, remained available throughout. We're glad
of the service, thank you Bitbucket!

The web and FTP sites are now (late December 2016) back up, and we
should have our lists and mail addresses available again soon.

As a common saying goes: Objects in mirror are closer than
they appear.

XEmacs Website Mirrors exist on following continents. Pick the
continent where your internet service provider resides, which is
not always the continent you may sit on. This is most likely to
matter when you work for an international company with no local
internet connection.

Current XEmacs Core Releases

XEmacs 21.4 has been promoted to stable, and the XEmacs
21.1 series has been retired. For those with classic taste, these
historical releases
are still available. We will continue to support, at a lower
level, 21.1 users. See the
announcement of 21.4.12 for
details.

Current XEmacs Package Releases

See the Quickstart
Package Guide for information about the XEmacs package system.
It is a feature differentiating XEmacs from GNU Emacs by allowing
us to deploy bug fixes and enhancements of our lisp packages on a
separate, usually faster, schedule than core XEmacs releases.